The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
By: T.S. Eliot , Simone Weil
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testi…
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1. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt , Tracy B. Strong
3.93
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic,… read more
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"Today nothing is more modern than the onslaught against the political. American financiers, industrial technicians, Marxist socialists, and anarchic-syndicalist revolutionaries unite in demanding tha…"-George Schwab, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
"All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development - in which they were transferred from theology to the …"-George Schwab, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
2. The Way Things Are
By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius
3.97
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more
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"There can be no centre in infinity."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
3. The Courage to Be
By: Paul Tillich , Peter J. Gomes
4.09
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of… read more
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"Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
"Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
"Le courage d'être s'enracine dans le Dieu qui apparaît quand Dieu a disparu dans l'angoisse du doute."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
"في الحقبة الحديثة انطلق العلم يفجر الطاقات الكامنة في الانسان منذ نهاية العصور الوسطى، لكن العلم انقلب على الانسان لأن الإنسان استغله لاستعباد الانسان."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
4. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Walter Lowrie
4.08
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Walter Lowrie's classic, bestselling translation of Søren Kierkegaard's most important and popular … read more
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- spirituality
"<...> tikėjimą turėti - pavydėtina dalia, net jei niekas apie tai nežinotų. (7-8)"-Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death
"kai Dievas savo visagaliu apsisprendimu <...>, kuris yra tarsi jo meilė, nori būti lygus pačiam menkiausiam, tai nei smuklės šeimininkas, nei filosofijos profesorius lai neįsikala į galvą, kad jie to…"-Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death
5. Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
By: Anne Carson
4.18
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memor… read more
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"Everything is a naked thought that strikes."-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
"I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable."-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
"Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go."-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
"What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away."-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
6. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
7. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more
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8. Erotism: Death and Sensuality
By: Georges Bataille , Mary Dalwood
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues the… read more
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9. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more
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- nonfiction
10. Portraits: John Berger on Artists
By: John Berger , Tom Overton
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in th… read more
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- history
11. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more
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- history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
12. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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13. What Is Art?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
3.73
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
During the decades of his world fame as sage & preacher as well as author of War & Peace & Anna Kar… read more
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"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, it is impossible for me to live. And I cannot know that, and consequently it is impossible for me to live,"-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
"A true work of art is the revelation of a new conception of life arising in the artist's soul, which, when expressed, lights up the path along with humanity progresses"-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
"To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling th…"-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
14. The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
By: T.S. Eliot , Simone Weil
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testi… read more
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16. The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Edna Hatlestad Hong , Howard Vincent Hong
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Soren Kierkegaard's radical and co… read more
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17. Philosophical Investigations
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , G.E.M. Anscombe
3.68
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Philosophische Untersuchungen is, with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of two major works b… read more
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18. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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19. The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
By: Wolfram Eilenberger
3.92
Format: 399 pages, Paperback
A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simo… read more
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20. The Enchiridion & Discourses of Epictetus
By: Epictetus
4.25
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
This collection has four preserved volumes of "The Discourses" and "The Enchiridion" by Epictetus. … read more
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"No, it is events that give rise to fear -- when another has the power over them or can prevent them, that person becomes able to inspire fear. How is the fortress destroyed? Not by iron or fire, but …"-Epictetus, The Enchiridion & Discourses of Epictetus
"Remember that you must behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Don’t stop it. Is it not yet…"-Epictetus, The Enchiridion & Discourses of Epictetus
"Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don’t talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as yo…"-Epictetus, The Enchiridion & Discourses of Epictetus
21. Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
By: Christian Wiman
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. … read more
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